Bajro Ikanović

Montag, 08. November 1976

Bajro Ikanović (born 8 November 1976) is a Bosnian Islamist, terrorist, and senior commander in the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Ikanović was born in Hrnčići, Bratunac, eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ikanović had previously been sentenced to eight years for terrorism offenses linked to the Bektašević case on January 10, 2007, which was reduced to four years on appeal on May 21, 2007. He was released from prison in 2011. According to the prosecution, “Mirsad Bektašević and Abdulkadir Cesur [had] the intention of committing a terrorist act on the territory of BiH or some other European country…the aim of this attach [sic] was to force the Bosnian government or government of another state to withdraw their forces from Iraq and Afghanistan.” The State Investigation and Protection Agency o